Hangzhou Nabel Greentown F.C.

Hangzhou Nabel Greentown F.C.
Hangzhou Nabel Greentown
杭州诺贝尔绿城
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Full name Hangzhou Greentown FC
杭州绿城房产足球俱乐部
Nickname(s) Greentown
Founded January 14, 1998
Ground Hangzhou Huanglong Stadium
(Capacity: 51,000)
Chairman China Bao Zhongliang
Manager China Wu Jingui
League Chinese Super League
2011 8th
Home colours
Away colours

Hangzhou Nabel Greentown F.C. (Simplified Chinese: 杭州绿城足球俱乐部) is a Chinese football club who play at 51,000 seater Hangzhou Huanglong Stadium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Founded on January 14, 1998 the club's main investor is the Greentown China Holdings Limited company. The team currently play in the Chinese Super League after winning promotion in 2006 and their current manager is Wu Jingui.

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History

On January 14, 1998 the Zhejiang green city soccer club limited company was officially established with a capital of 16,000,000 Yuan and Zeng Leming was appointed as their general manager. The Zhejiang green city real estate company, the Hangzhou money pond real estate company, the Zhejiang University and the Zhejiang Province soccer association all participated in the creation as well as the registration of the club.[1] The company would go on to form a youth team before finally creating a senior team on January 22, 1999 to take part in the third tier with Bao Yingfu as their first Head coach. They wouldn't wait long to show their ambition when they would make the play-offs in 2000 before losing to Tianjin Lifei.[2] Still determined to win promotion the club decided to buy the first team of Jilin Aodong as well as their position in Chinese Football Association Jia League on November 23, 2000 for 25,000,000 Yuan, in time for the beginning of the 2001 league season. Under the new general manager Shen Qiang the club brought in new sponsors and Gu Mingchang as the new Head coach, however during this period the club couldn't win promotion to the top tier and the Chairman Song Weiping expressed his disappointment of the team. Off the field the club would go through several management changes as well as ownership changes particularly from the Greentown China Holdings Limited who took a 95% share of the team for 20,000,000 Yuan and decided to rename the club Hangzhou Greentown.[1] Under Wang Zheng as their Head coach the team would start to generally push for promotion, eventually achieving it at the end of the 2006 league season when they came second in the division.[3] The club often found themselves fighting off relegation and would bring in several managers to alleviate the problem, however this wasn't enough during the 2009 league season and the club found themselves in the relegation zone at the end of the season. Surprisingly the club were allowed to stay within the 2010 Chinese Super League after it was discovered that Chengdu Blades and Guangzhou F.C. were guilty of match-fixing.[4] Hangzhou Greentown are not called the greenhorns contrary to popular belief.

Name history

  • 2002 Renamed to Zhejiang Greentown (浙江绿城)
  • 2003 Renamed to Zhejiang Sanhua Greentown (浙江三花绿城)
  • 2004 Renamed to Zhejiang Greentown (浙江绿城)
  • 2006 Renamed to Zhejiang Bebei Greentown (浙江巴贝绿城房产)
  • 2007 Renamed to Zhejiang Greentown (浙江绿城房产)
  • 2009 Renamed to Hangzhou Greentown (杭州绿城房产)
  • 2010 Renamed to Hangzhou Nabel Greentown (杭州诺贝尔绿城)

Crest history

Results

  • As of the end of 2011 season

All-time League rankings

Season 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Division 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
Position 51 5 8 7 10 8 3 2 11 9 15 4 8
  • ^1 in group stage

Current squad

As of 8 July 2011.

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 China GK Han Feng
2 China DF Wu Shaokun
3 Australia DF Adam Griffiths
4 China DF Rong Hao
5 China DF Du Wei (Captain)
6 China FW Yang Zi
7 China FW Xie Zhiyu
9 Honduras FW Luis Ramírez
11 Uruguay MF Paulo Pezzolano
12 China MF Shen Longyuan
13 China DF Cao Xuan
14 China DF Jin Pengxiang
15 China DF Sun Ji
16 China MF Fan Xiaodong
17 China FW Tan Yang
18 China MF Zheng Kewei
No. Position Player
19 China MF Tang Jiashu
20 China FW Bari Mamatil
21 Uruguay MF Sebastián Vázquez
23 China GK Gu Chao
24 China DF Liu Bin
25 China DF Jiao Zhe
26 China MF Wang Quan
27 China MF Wang Kai
28 China DF Wu Wei
29 China GK Jiang Bo
30 China FW Zeng Yue
31 China MF Yang Chen
32 China DF Lai Yang
33 China MF Wang Song
41 Honduras FW Randy Diamond
42 China FW Mao Jianqing

Coaching staff

Position Staff
Head coach China Wu Jingui
Assistant coaches China Mao Yijun
China Xu Deming
Goalkeepers coach China Cai Jianlin
Fitness coach China Zheng Xiong
Team physicians China Nie Lianjun
China Liu Peimao
China Wang Shucheng

Source: Sina.com

Former notable players

Honours

League

Youth Team

U-15 Team

  • Nike Cup Winners: 2008

International Friendlies

  • On 26 July 2009, Manchester United visited the Dragon Stadium and played a friendly against Hangzhou Greentown as part of their pre-season Asian tour.[5] Manchester United won by 8 goals to 2.
  • On 16 July 2011, Arsenal visited the Meihu Stadium and played a friendly against Hangzhou Greentown as part of their pre-season Asian tour.[6] The game was drawn 1–1.

See also

References

External links


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